[PD] Mac OS X/PowerPC builds needed

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Feb 27, 2012, at 11:05 AM, m.e.grimm wrote:

>> the build
>> kinks on 10.7, I'm sure he'd like some company in that misery.
> 
> in fink, out of hans's pd-extended-dev script, on 10.7, the only thing
> not building is:
> 
> gmerlin
> 
> here is the error from the termilal:
> 
> http://pastebin.com/w6L9LMPm
> 
> if anyone wants to help?
> 
> a 10.7 build system would be nice yes.
> 
>> builds on 10.5 and 10.6 should work fine on 10.7, so there isn't much of a
>> need for a 10.7 build server.
> 
> might ease 64 bit builds on osx? since at least for my fink install
> all the libs are compiled 64 bit...

I think 10.6 builds 64-bit fine, at least so far on the 10.6 build server and my 10.6 laptop.

.hc



>> iOS especially for my laptop, and Apple seems to be planning the end of Mac
>> OS X, and is replacing it chunk by chunk with iOS.
> 
> what they did with my beloved FCP (X?) really sucked... whats left?
> premiere? kdenlive? they are looking to imovie-atize everything. dont
> make. consume.
> 
> m
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 10:20 AM, Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at> wrote:
>> 
>> I'm sure people who have PPC equipment still use it ;-)  As for 10.7, the
>> builds on 10.5 and 10.6 should work fine on 10.7, so there isn't much of a
>> need for a 10.7 build server.  Mark Grimm has been working out the build
>> kinks on 10.7, I'm sure he'd like some company in that misery.
>> 
>> As for me, 10.6 will be the last version of Mac OS X I use.  I don't like
>> iOS especially for my laptop, and Apple seems to be planning the end of Mac
>> OS X, and is replacing it chunk by chunk with iOS.  I've been using NeXTSTEP
>> since 1994, and Mac OS X is really just the continuation of NeXTSTEP.  More
>> and more, the continuation of the ideas that make NeXTSTEP so great are
>> happening outside of Apple, with projects like Étoilé http://etoileos.com/
>> and GNUstep.
>> 
>> One idea in Étoilé that blew me away with its awesomeness and inevitability
>> was the idea of the OS providing the core frameworks for all document types,
>> and that core framework keeps all revisions of the document permanently.
>>  Its time for File->Save to go away, disk space is cheap, the every app
>> should save documents with the entire history of how they were created.
>> 
>> Apple, on the other hand, seems to be focused on people who want to have
>> their nice big corporation do their thinking for them.  So they are working
>> hard to lock their users out of their own systems, forcing all applications
>> to go through their review process, and other such things.  NeXTSTEP always
>> focused on making the power of the computer as available and easy to use as
>> possible.  Apple still do a lot of things much better than anyone else, but
>> that is just too high a cost to pay.
>> 
>> .hc
>> 
>> On Feb 26, 2012, at 9:56 PM, Rich E wrote:
>> 
>> Does anyone use Power PC for audio work anymore?  Also, is there a 10.7
>> machine? The latter seems more in demand.
>> 
>> cheers,
>> Rich
>> 
>> On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 12:56 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at>
>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> So the Mac OS X PowerPC machine from the build farm has died.  The hard
>>> drive is intact, so all the data is there.  I also have much more limited
>>> time for maintaining the PdLab machines.  So I'm looking for someone to host
>>> the Mac OS X PowerPC builds.  It can be really any recent PowerPC Mac.  The
>>> old machine was a 300MHz G4.
>>> 
>>> Can anyone take this on?  I'd hate to see Mac OS X/PowerPC dropped from
>>> the supported platforms since they are still quite capable machines.
>>> 
>>> .hc
>>> 
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